I thought it was just religion the media was so clueless about. I see science is part of the group of topics the media has absolutely nothing useful to speak of. Evolution doesnt follow a logical pathway based on transient social trends. we have many traits that serve no purpose simply because there was no selection against it. if evolution followed a logical plan it would be called intelligent design. and lets not go there.Maybe the media should just stick to entertainers and their drug addictions.

Probably not. The large population and the interbreeding of people from different parts of the world are brakes to evolution.

The biggest change should be that we all look the same, but that won't be much different than what we look like now. Some smaller outlier groups with distinct appearances may disappear like South African Bushmen or Australian Aborigines. Polynesians may not be so diabetes prone. I suspect they will be like everyone else. White people will probably be gone, and so will really black people.

Evolution implies that people with unwanted genetic traits or diseases will not be reproducing, how are we going to selectively breed If these traits? If we can't then we'll never "evolve" past what we are. We'll just keep bandaging our bodies and living longer with them. All the while making more of us that will all be allowed to reproduce with the same defective parts.

FTFA: Osteopath Garry Trainer, from north London, says: "The average American is about one inch taller than in 1960."

This isn't true: Americans stopped growing in average height about 50 years ago and recent evidence says that because of poor childhood nutrition we are getting shorter -- and fatter. This from a 2004 article in The New Yorker titled "The Height Gap: Why Europeans are Getting Taller -- and Americans Aren't":

But sometime around 1955 the situation began to reverse. The Germans and other Europeans went on to grow an extra two centimetres a decade, and some Asian populations several times more, yet Americans haven't grown taller in fifty years.

The average American man is only five feet nine and a half-less than an inch taller than the average soldier during the Revolutionary War. Women, meanwhile, seem to be getting smaller. According to the National Center for Health Statistics-which conducts periodic surveys of as many as thirty-five thousand Americans-women born in the late nineteen-fifties and early nineteen-sixties average just under five feet five. Those born a decade later are a third of an inch shorter.